Everybody, from SaaS applications to retailers, to your favorite food truck, has to deal with payments. But architecting a system that can deal with payments at scale can be challenging. That’s because some payments system requirements are complex, including the following:

• Payments often don’t matter much beyond the 60-90 seconds during which a payment transaction takes place. However, because product returns are important, the payment data needs to remain available forever.
• Successful businesses generate a lot of payment data as they scale. Storing all of this data and keeping it available without bogging down the application is a challenge.
• Consistency and correctness are critical. Customers (and auditors) are not forgiving when it comes to money.
• Availability is critical. Even a small amount of downtime could mean a lot of lost revenue for a big company or a loss of early adopters for a small startup. 

In this webinar Alex Lunev, a 16 year veteran of Fintech (Square, Blackrock, Varo) will discuss how payments work, what different traditional payments systems look like, and how to build systems that can meet all of the above requirements.

We will be giving away 20 CockroachDB branded bucket hats to the first 20 people who ask questions in the session. So don’t hesitate to pop questions about your use case into the Q&A!